Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during the next two years in the 70th session their power will be decisive, the votes of any two of them being sufficient to give either the Democrats or Republicans control of the Senate. Calvin Coolidge, however, is no Woodrow Wilson. Last week he set about to placate the insurgents, cajole them, humor them. To a breakfast of buckwheat cakes and sausage at the White House he invited Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Laborite of the Senate, who usually...
...Birth control and Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming were the words that wagged the tongues of convention-goers of the New York League of Women Voters at Syracuse last week...
After a hubbub and by a vote of 53 to 42, the convention indorsed the proposed amendment to the Penal Code which would permit physicians to give contraceptive prescriptions to any married woman. Fervent advocates of the amendment hailed birth control as a means of preventing war, checking crime and disease...
...college town is a commonwealth, the living conditions in which are quite as Utopian as Comenjus and his friends could have desired. The college is free from taxation and from practically all obitgation to serve the community in any way. Its conditions of residence permit a twenty-four hour control of the life of its citizens and the almost total absence of external criticism permits the development of attitude toward life which are the results of hypotheses submitted only to the college forum for review. At any given moment in any American college anything, theoretically, disposable...
...whole independent student organization free from any professional domination. One may cite as example the history and principles of critical writing, a course in the practice of critical writing, the English club of the college open to faculty and students and the college newspaper completely free of faculty control. There should be continuous interchange between these four types of organization and conference between professor and students all alone the line. The one need not interiene with the other either in the quantity of time consumed, or in the quality of work. Lacking any one of the four types of organization...